Recently I received a robo call from a political action committee supporting Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle. It reiterated the talking points in her “It’s Too Expensive” article July 8. There is a wealth of information easily accessible that rebuts these distortions of the law and its effect on business. All of the sources she refers to have websites that explain in detail how the calculations for the cost of the plan were derived over 10 years, and what income bracket is affected. Most of the new taxes will only apply to the amount over $250,000 adjusted gross income for a couple, and $200,000 for an individual. That’s hardly “disproportionately affecting the middle class.”

The statistic referred to from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was based on an online, opt-in survey of small-business executives. The chamber can’t be sure it’s a representative sample of small-business executives so it can’t be given much credence. It is the responsibility of voting individuals to take an hour or so and educate themselves, rather than accept as fact Rush Limbaugh’s hugely exaggerated claim that the new health care law is “the biggest tax increase in the history of the world.”